Coincy you tend to be pretty level headed on this forum but it surprised me to read the following:

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I hope that by now most are aware that many studies have concluded that immigrants contribute more to our systems then take.

But addressing your comment please read this link about how many immigrant children can and are thriving even over native children.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside ... -being_in_immigrant_.html


Plus, wouldn't these children's need for language instruction lead to teachers being hired? Thus helping the economy and getting people jobs. Just sayin.

And as for Heights comment.....heights is being heights....sad i know.

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It is probably funded by the federal government but ultimately the money comes from our taxes.

How much does this distinction cost us in having to teach non-English speaking students?

We?ve all heard the ?best mid-sized city in America? mantra so many times now that everyone is saying it in their sleep, right?

Put that aside for a moment and let?s brag about something Jersey City has already achieved: Of all the bazillion cities in the U.S., which one ranks among the top 10 most diverse? Yep, that?s right, Jersey City. Here?s the bigger surprise: Jersey City ranks second on the list, beating out places like Los Angeles and Houston ? which didn?t make the top 10 at all ? and next door neighbor New York City, which ranked ninth.

Vallejo, Calif., ranked first on the list.

This is according to the nonprofit consumer advocacy group NerdWallet, which looked at U.S. Census data to determine which cities had near equal distributions of white, black, Latino, and Asian populations, the four major races in the nation.
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?Our methodology looked at how close a city was to having an even distribution across the four main races.? ? Divya Raghavan
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?We interviewed parents and we asked them what they look for before moving into a city and all of them said diversity,? said Divya Raghavan, a senior analyst with NerdWallet. ?So, diversity is among the things that is important to consumers when looking for a place to live, especially people with young children. Our mission at NerdWallet is giving consumers information they can understand. We try to access difficult information, like Census data, and we analyze it and put it into a form that is consumer friendly.?

Of the top 10 most diverse cities, half of them are located in California and only two are in the South. Not a single city in the Midwest made the list.

The top 10 most diverse cities were: Vallejo, Calif.; Jersey City; Suisun City, Calif.; Oakland, Calif.; San Leandro, Calif.; Germantown, Md.; Lincolnia, Va.; Atlantic City; New York, and Florin, Calif.

?On a day-to-day, quality of life basis, diverse cities have more options like a greater variety of restaurants and cultural events,? said Raghavan. ?So more diverse cities will have an Asian American parade and they?ll celebrate Juneteenth. You have more opportunities to learn about other people and other cultures than you would in less diverse cities.?

Surprises?

Anytime lists are drawn, questions come up regarding why certain entries made the list and others did not.

Where?s Atlanta, Ga.? Los Angeles? San Francisco?

?Remember, our methodology looked at how close a city was to having an even distribution across the four main races,? Raghavan said. ?Some people were surprised by the list because they expected places like Hawaii to be on it. Just having a large nonwhite population was not enough to put you on the list.?

Another surprise was the list of the 10 least diverse cities. Interestingly that list included a number of cities that aren?t predominantly white, but are overwhelmingly Latino.

The least diverse cities included Huntington Park, Calif.; East Los Angeles, Calif.; Lancaster, Ohio; Rocky River, Ohilo; Forest Hills, Mich.; Laredo, Tex.; South Gate, Calif.; Green, Ohio; Mentor, Ohio, and West Seneca, N.Y.

Raghavan said migration patterns might be among the biggest reasons why these cities haven?t diversified their populations as successfully as some other places.

The NerdWallet website actually lists the top 20 most and least diverse cities in the country. To see the complete lists, visit NerdWallet.com.

Read more: Hudson Reporter -

That is fine as long as the pockets don't become crime havens.

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There are different ways to look at diversity and segregation. Here's another take. Most people would regard New York City as one of the nation's and world's most diverse cities. And it certainly is, considered as a whole city. But when you look at its neighborhoods, the picture changes. NYC is the 3rd MOST segregated city in America (of 21 major cities surveyed).

http://au.businessinsider.com/most-se ... onx-are-highly-diverse-19 (Go one click over to slide 18 to see Newark, NJ, 4th most segregated on the list.)

We love the diversity of Jersey City, but it's not exactly about having demographic equality block by block. The real test of diversity is how well people of different origins (ethnic, class, religious, whatever) actually relate to one another. Do they live in the same neighborhoods, share workplaces, eat in the same restaurants and shop at the same stores? I love Jersey City as it is - but Dr. King's dream remains imperfectly realized, and the chasm between Newport and MLK Drive is not bridged by the light rail.

Quoting from the linked article:

"Racial segregation remains a problem in America, and it?s lasting longer than anyone expected.
Just how bad things are can be determined through analysis of 2010 Census data.

The average black person lives in a neighbourhood that is 45 per cent black. Without segregation, his neighbourhood would be only 13 per cent black, according to an analysis of 2010 Census data by professors John Logan and Brian Stult at Brown and Florida State.

Logan and Stult evaluated segregation in major cities with a dissimilarity index, which identifies the percentage of one group that would have to move to a different neighbourhood to eliminate segregation. A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered extreme.

In the following slides, we have ranked the most segregated cities in ascending order. They are illustrated with maps of cities by race created by Eric Fischer and publicly available on Flickr. The red dots show white people, blue is black, orange is Hispanic, green is Asian, and yellow is other."

In the NYC slide, segregation appears as bright color-monolithic areas. Looking across the Hudson, you can see a similar pattern at work, but less solid.

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I read recently (somewhere, I forget where) that 75 languages are spoken in JC.

Oy.

Did you see this article?

A Village With the Numbers, Not the Image, of the Poorest Place
Published: April 20, 2011

The poorest place in the United States is not a dusty Texas border town, a hollow in Appalachia, a remote Indian reservation or a blighted urban neighborhood. It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually nonexistent.

And, yet, officially, at least, none of the nation?s 3,700 villages, towns or cities with more than 10,000 people has a higher proportion of its population living in poverty than Kiryas Joel, N.Y., a community of mostly garden apartments and town houses 50 miles northwest of New York City in suburban Orange County.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyr ... .html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel

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Not really, Westside is the most diverse place in Jersey City, It split pretty equal.

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I think it's a reasonable method considering the data they have to work with. Also, there are many ways to look at diversity. They define it by population percentages above a certain threshold. You seem to think it should be defined by the number of ethnicities who are present in the city. They are both valid ways to look at it.

The advantage of their method is that it reflects cities in which various ethnic groups cooperate in running the city because no one group dominates the others. Our current city council reflects this.

Montreal has a large variety of ethnic groups, but it 75% white (according to Wikipedia) with the remaining 25% split fairly evenly among blacks, arabs, South Asians and Chinese. That probably leads to a lot of interesting restaurants, but none of the minority groups has real power.

Even under the method of counting the number of ethnicities JC would score very high.

The diversity here is one of the things I love about JC

It's not as diverse as you think most people stay in their own pockets. The interaction among the masses seem to stay within thier own "ethnic communities" They may co-exsist together but that is where it slows down to a waltz.

You dont have to go all the way to Ohio. How about Darien, CT?

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Anyone look at the least diverse?! I bet they sell a lot of SPF50 in Ohio.

Where else would the thousands of expats from around the world working in Manhattan live that was cost effective? JC and Hoboken is the home of many expats working in NYC

Not to take anything away from JC, but that is a REALLY ODD way to evaluate/determine diversity. How is equal distribution of ethnicities indicative of diversity?

By that standard, Montreal would be considered barely diverse (with two thirds of the population being white) but it is almost universally considered one of the most diverse cities in the word!

Cool! Thanks for sharing this.

Jersey City has been ranked the second most diverse city in the nation, Business Insider reports.

Financial website NerdWallet took the four most common ethnic groups -- Hispanic/Latino, white, black, and Asian/Pacific Islander -- and calculated which cities in the country had the most equal distribution, Business Insider reports.

Vallejo, Calif. ranked first, beating Jersey City by with 1.6 diversity points, the report said.

Atlantic City was the only other New Jersey City listed in the top 20. Atlantic City is listed as the eighth-most diverse city in the nation. Other cities in the top 20 included locations in California, New York, Maryland, Washington and Virginia.

Aiyana Cronk/The Jersey Journal